Mapping the history of enslavement behind Boston's Freedom Trail sites
For people who use screen readers or who cannot load the map, details of the Freedom Trail sites are below. There is almost no record of enslaved p...
July 19, 2023
4:18 AM
For people who use screen readers or who cannot load the map, details of the Freedom Trail sites are below. There is almost no record of enslaved people traversing Boston Common, the nation's oldest public park. But we know they were there — because Boston took steps to ban them. The 'new' State House was built in the late 1700s, after slavery had been abolished in Massachusetts. Like everything else on the Freedom Trail, however, there is a strong thread of slavery that runs through the building.